At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he moved to Zhouzhuang with his father and started farming. Help businessman Lu Daoyuan manage his finances and make huge sums of money. After that, he fully carried out trading activities and quickly became the richest man in Jiangnan with "asset worth tens of millions and land exceeding Wuxia". He lived in Nanjing, Suzhou, Wujiang and other places and became famous all over the world.
